INTRODUCTION Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

introduction

noun

ˌin-trə-ˈdək-shən

as in preface

a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part a leading biologist wrote the introduction to that new textbook

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Recent Examples on the Web But since the introduction of social media and especially during the early 2020s, charcuterie boards really began to boom. —

Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2024 The introduction of a Russia-style law on foreign influence in May — and a brutal police crackdown on subsequent protests at the bill — was particularly contentious, and seen as the most obvious example of Georgian Dream’s slide toward a Kremlin-like style of governance. —

Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024 Some studies, for instance, report a correlation between the introduction of outside directors and improved corporate performance but others detect none. —

Michael Useem, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024 But their original introduction into horror media was always a deliberate choice. —

Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for introduction

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In her preface to a reissued edition of the novel, Segal remembers being housed in a camp during a frigid English winter.

Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
The reissue contains a new preface by Benjamin Moser, the biographer of Susan Sontag, one of Hujar’s dear friends, who wrote the introduction to the first edition, and also appears in an iconic picture therein, recumbent with upraised arms folded to cradle her head.

Jackson Davidow, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019